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We’ve a lot to thank her for.

Following her unstinting efforts to improve access for horses, we have the loop running from our doorstep around the southern Pennines.

Sadly, she didn’t make it to the opening – but it’s some memorial!

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I know you’ve all been clamouring for a shot of Shaman’s arse, so here it is!

Just like the old days!

This is up on the moor, between Brittania and Lee Quarries.

It’s just above Bacup – a place that makes me feel a little nervous. Did you know that all the Bacup residents have red hair and share the same surname?

Lee Quarry – a local quarry for local people!

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It’s always nice when someone shows you their local trails.

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We all have one don’t we?  The route from the back door that has no excuse, no cause for prevarication, no reason not to ride.  Hard enough to make your heart bang, tricky enough to remind yourself what the word technical means, long enough to give you a glow of smug self-satisfaction when it’s completed. Read the rest of this entry »

I never fancy going out when it’s cold.

But once I’m out – it’s usually worth it. Read the rest of this entry »

Lee Quarry now boasts a Skillz Area.
Time for the Rooley Moor Rampage!

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Don’t bother with a camera and the weather’s great, take it with me and you can’t see a thing!

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The industrial Fells are littered with relics from the past – from RooleyHenge to the Industrial Revolution.
I wonder who will inherit the windmills when they become relics of a bygone age?

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It signifies the end of the summer.

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…just for the day. Kissing all the girls, blow the bad guys away.

Pinewood studios moves up north for the next 007 epic.
Meanwhile, we were on an epic of our own.

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